Explorations in Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers

Explorations in Transactional Analysis brings together many of Bill Cornell's articles on transactional analysis. Written over 20 years, these papers reflect his ongoing exploration of the interfaces among transactional analysis, the body-centered therapies, and contemporary psychoanalysis. Much of Bill's writing exemplifies the potential and enrichment brought to our work in human relations through the use of one theoretical model to challenge and enhance another. An extensive section devoted to working with the body in psychotherapy brings together a selection of papers and book chapters available for the first time in a single volume. Often written to raise questions more than provide answers, many of these papers are written in an unusually personal voice.

William F. Cornell, M.A., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), studied behavioral psychology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and phenomenological psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Following his graduate studies, he trained in transactional analysis and body-centered psychotherapy. Bill has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, many exploring the interface between transactional analysis, body-centered and psychoanalytic modalities. He is editor of the ITAA Script newsletter and coeditor of the Transactional Analysis Journal. He is the editor of The Healer s Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter (The Analytic Press), a collection of the psychoanalytic writings of James McLaughlin, for which Bill wrote the introduction, and coeditor with Helena Hargaden and a contributing author for From Transactions to Relations: The Emergence of Relational Paradigms in Transactional Analysis (Haddon Press). Bill is also the author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis and the forthcoming The Impassioned Body. Bill maintains an independent private practice of therapy, consultation, and training in Pittsburgh and leads frequent training groups in Europe.